Can you make a photobook from a shared album? The tools to select pictures for a photobook currently suck. Favorites don's transfer from the iPhone, and it appears I can't use a shared album either.
MacBook Pro, iOS 8.4.1
I was wondering how to do this as well, and (at least for me), it ended up being really easy.
1. create a new album (not shared)
2. select the shared album (in your case the one with the 800 of your photos and the 200 of other peoples)
3. select all (control + A)
4. drag all the photos into the new non-shared album you created.
It should not duplicate anything, and you should now have an album with all 1000 photos from which you can easily make a book. And, it will sort all of the photos your friends took chronologically into your photos as well.
I hope this helps, or that you already figured this out!
the favorites tag does not sync or import - If you use iCloud Photo Library it does just fine - and of course automatically gives your all of you photos on every device
and tell Apple what you want - https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html
Q1 - not directly - you need to use iCloud Photo library
Q2 - Yes - or use ICPL - although you still have to import each "third party" photos too use it
Q3 - probably - I have not done that - do one and see
Q4 - I am agan not aware of a way except using ICPL - for De-duping the three treated safe programs that I am aware of are
PhowerPhotos by FatCat
PhotoSweeper for PHotos
Duplicate Annihilator for Photos
LN
You need to give details to get help since ewe can not see you and only know wha you tell us - which at this point is simply that you have same problems you need help with
To use photos form a shared album you must import them to Photos - right click on each one and import
Other than that these in no information in your post to give us a clue as to what you problem is or how to help
LN
Larry - thanks for the offer to help.
I just finished a 3 month trip abroad, and took about 5,000 photos. I marked about 800 as favorites on the iPhone. I also shared these 800 photos in a shared folder with some other people traveling with me. They added another 200 photos into the shared folder.
When I imported all the photos from my iPhone, none of them are marked as "favorites" in the photos app. This was somewhat frustrating in that it looks like I would have to go back through them all and re-mark them.
Q1: Is there any way to recover which of these photos had been previously marked as a "favorite" on the iPhone prior to import?
My second, and preferred, approach would be if I could create a photo book from the shared album.
Q2: It appears from your answer than I would need to go through the shared album and import each picture one at a time, is this correct?
Q3: Since about 800 of the photos in my shared album are already in my library, if I import them from the shared album, am I going to have a bunch of duplicates?
Q4: The easiest approach for me would to do a batch import of the shared folder, make sure they are all marked as "Favorites" and de-duplicate the library using third party software?
Thanks again for helping out. My goal is just to make a photo book with the
Can you make photobooks from shared albums?
